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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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At Scale, we believe that the next frontier of artificial intelligence is embodied. The Physical AI team is focused on building general AI that can reason and act in the physical world. By leveraging Scale’s massive, industry-leading data infrastructure, we are partnering with frontier labs to build Foundation Models for Physical AI that will redefine the future of automation. To support our rapid hardware-software iteration cycles and ensure a world-class R&D environment, we are looking for a Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead to anchor our physical testing operations. Role Overview As the Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead , you will play a mission-critical role in scaling our physical testing infrastructure safely and efficiently. This is a high-impact position where your highest-priority responsibility will be owning the end-to-end execution of safety audits and incident documentation . Operating at the intersection of cutting-edge AI foundation models and complex robotics hardware, you will ensure our researchers, engineers, and autonomous systems interact in a secure, compliant, and highly organized environment. Core Responsibilities Priority Focus: Safety Audits & Incident Documentation Rigorous Safety Audits: Design, schedule, and execute routine safety audits across all physical testing environments, robot cells, and hardware workspaces to ensure continuous compliance with internal benchmarks and industrial safety standards. Incident & Near-Miss Documentation: Own the end-to-end incident management pipeline. Act as the primary point of contact for documenting, archiving, and analyzing any lab incidents, mechanical anomalies, or near-misses. Root-Cause Analysis (RCA): Lead structured post-incident investigations to identify systematic risks, authoring comprehensive RCA reports and implementing Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA). Data-Driven Risk Mitigation: Treat safety data as a core operational asset—tracking safety metrics and audit trends to proa

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior/Staff electrical and firmware engineer who designs the board and writes the firmware for connected consumer and enterprise devices, including tablets, POS systems, peripherals, and emerging robotics applications. In this role, you will take connected devices from ambiguous user or business needs through system architecture, rapid prototyping, board design, firmware implementation, bring-up, field deployment, and production transition. The ideal candidate has a passion for building and shipping reliable hardware at scale and thrives in an environment that demands technical depth and high-quality execution across multiple concurrent programs. This is a build-heavy role on a small, senior team. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Own connected devices end to end, including: Own connected devices from an ambiguous product need through field deployment. Work across the hardware and firmware boundary instead of handing work between specialists. Explore uncertain product ideas through rapid prototypes and experiments. Make consequential tradeoffs on a small, senior team with direct exposure to users and field behavior. Key Responsibilities Translate user and business needs into an integrated electrical and firmware architecture. Design compute-based, mixed-signal boards incorporating processors

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Discovery Experience team, which owns the Homepage - DoorDash’s front door. It’s the first screen millions of consumers see every day, and since every session starts there, it’s the highest-leverage surface in the consumer funnel: a more personalized recommendation, a faster render, or a cleaner layout can move the metrics the whole company watches. The Homepage spans restaurants, grocery, and emerging verticals across iOS, Android, and Web. We’re rebuilding it around LLM-generated recommendations, shifting discovery from static, rules-based feeds to generative, intent-driven experiences that respond to real-time signals in the moment. About the Role You will lead and grow a team of product-focused full stack engineers, owning both the product and technical direction for the discovery surface - deciding where discovery goes next and how it’s built. You’ll set the roadmap and drive execution alongside Product, Design, Data Science, and ML/Recommendation Platform partners, and you’ll own the quality, velocity, and consumer impact your team ships. It’s a role with real ownership and the room to grow both the product and the team behind it. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Own the Homepage end to end, the highest-traffic surface at DoorDash and where every consumer session begins Turn Homepage bets into company-level outcomes: real lift in conversion and order rate for millions of consumers Define discovery quality for DoorDash: getting the right store, restaurant, or item in front of the right consumer at the right moment Ship LLM-gen recommendations and intent-aware discovery that route consumers to the right experience across food, grocery, retail, and emerging verticals Partner across Product, Design, Data Science, and ML/Recommendation Platform teams to shape the discovery roadmap and ship the experiences behind it Build an inclusive, high-performing team by coaching en

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team DoorDash for Business is how companies feed their people. We build the products that let a company run a recurring team lunch, give every employee a meal budget, cater an event or meeting and manage all of it through a single corporate account - across every brand and every market DoorDash operates in. About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team in DoorDash for Business. Our domain runs from the moment an order is placed to everything a company needs to administer it: high-complexity ordering for catering, recurring team meals, and group orders; the admin portal, identity, and member management that companies run their account on; budgets and policy enforcement; and the expense and travel integrations that connect us to our customers' finance systems. You'll own a pod of 8-10 engineers with a critical charter inside that domain, real revenue attached to it, and close partnership with Product, Design, and Sales Strategy & Operations. You must be located in the Seattle, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Own a business-critical charter end to end - set technical direction, define the roadmap with your PM and Business counterparts, and be accountable for what ships and how well it runs. Build and grow a team - Hire, level up, and retain engineers; set the bar for what good looks like on your pod; give people work that stretches them. Work on a genuinely global product - Your charter serves the US alongside EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, with partner pods in India, Helsinki, and Brazil. You'll help decide what's built once globally versus what needs regional variation and build the partnerships across time zones to make that stick Take on real architectural weight - Consolidating onto one global stack means untangling parallel implementations, drawing clean service-ownership lines, and making migration calls with production tr

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team The Support Quality team’s vision is to “Provide teammates, team leads, and AI Agents with actionable feedback on 100% of cases so they can get 1% better every day. Deliver actionable business insight to wider S&O to help improve business policy and processes / Product teams to increase our customer experience.” About the Role You will report to the Director, Teammate Enablement, in our Customer Experience organization. The Teammate Enablement Team is responsible for ensuring that our Teammates have the resources (tooling, quality measurements, and knowledge base) and training to effectively and empathetically support DoorDash’s customers. Where opportunities are identified, we drive feedback to our business partners in order to empower Teammates to be 1% better every day for our customers. The team’s primary role will be to: i) build automated QA metrics that have high coverage, precision, and low false-positive rates; ii) support all manual QA efforts, including incubation and scale-up of new measurements; iii) deliver actionable insights to our partner teams to help improve the processes and policies on our support experience, as well as insights for our vendors to drive better agent performance management; and iv) manage our QA tech providers to ensure they deliver against our ambitious roadmap. This is a leadership role, with the expectation of managing the priorities of a small team while remaining accountable to key initiatives oneself. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead a small team centered around identifying and fixing top opportunities in our quality assurance programs that support customer service at DoorDash. Design, launch, and evolve our conversational intelligence program, utilizing AI technology to monitor, measure, and drive continuous improvements in our customer service interactions. Drive the strategy of our quality assurance program, identifying the right strategies to balance manual quality assuranc

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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About Us Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X , and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog . Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Role Join Twitch’s Memberships team within the Commerce Engineering organization, where we’re building rewarding experiences allowing creators to make a living doing what they love. We’re the team behind our continuous patronage features including channel Subscriptions, Gifting, and Turbo. As a member of our team, you’ll work alongside our highly engaged and collaborative team to design, build and maintain systems that scale to millions of concurrent users. We actively seek to improve our experiences and are looking for members that are passionate about our end users. Our team is based in San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA. You Will: Create interactive experiences that are rewarding for both viewers and creators Architect and build robust, scalable applications that can handle millions of concurrent users Participate in Operational Excellence work to maintain and support our live services Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers and designers to build new products and solutions You Have: 1+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on building scalable systems Excellent proficiency in modern programming languages (Python, Java, Go) and distributed system technologies A track record of building product experiences that users love Sharp proble

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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About Us Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X , and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog . Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Team Twitch's Enterprise Platform & Technology (EPT) organization is looking for a Software Development Engineer II to build the systems where SAP meets AWS — extending our enterprise ERP with cloud-native services and agentic AI to power Finance and enterprise functions across Twitch and Amazon. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll work on SAP-side development (ABAP, CDS, RAP, OData) and AWS-native engineering (Lambda, Step Functions, MCP servers, Bedrock, CDK) — owning integrations end-to-end. About the Role You'll work at the intersection of SAP enterprise systems and modern cloud engineering — building AWS-hosted APIs and pipelines that talk to SAP, standing up agentic AI tooling (MCP servers, Bedrock agents, Claude-powered workflows) that automates Finance operations, and shipping production AWS services alongside SAP customizations. The business problems are well understood; how you solve them with SAP + AWS + AI is up to you. We need someone equally comfortable writing ABAP inside SAP GUI and Python/TypeScript infrastructure code against AWS — a full-stack enterprise engineer who ships across both worlds and raises the bar on automation. You Will SAP Engineering (~50%) Design, build, and maintain integrations between SAP (S/4HANA, BTP) and downstream systems — own

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$150K – $210K/yr

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) What is Verse? The race to AI has become the race to power. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence depends on one thing: access to electricity. But across the country, aging grid infrastructure and years-long interconnection queues are slowing the deployment of the data centers that will power the next generation of innovation. Solving this challenge isn't just about energy—it's about unlocking the future of AI. At Verse, we're building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, and built by pioneers in grid-scale batteries, energy markets, and enterprise software, we're redefining how the world's most ambitious organizations access and manage energy. The Role We're seeking an experienced Senior Optimization Engineer to join our Data Science Team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of optimization models that power our software platform across applications including electricity markets, renewable energy, and battery energy storage systems. You will be responsible for developing production-grade optimization engines that solve complex operational and planning problems at scale. This role requires deep expertise in mathematical optimization, strong software engineering skills in Python, and experience building optimization models that integrate with production systems. The ideal candidate has significant experience in the energy industry, particularly electricity markets and battery storage optimization. This position emphasizes technical leadership, ownership of complex optimization projects, and collaboration across engineering, product, and commercial teams to deliver high-impact optimization solutions. Key Res

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$150K – $240K/yr

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote/Hybrid Available) What is Verse? The race to AI has become the race to power. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence depends on one thing: access to electricity. But across the country, aging grid infrastructure and years-long interconnection queues are slowing the deployment of the data centers that will power the next generation of innovation. Solving this challenge isn't just about energy—it's about unlocking the future of AI. At Verse, we're building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, and built by pioneers in grid-scale batteries, energy markets, and enterprise software, we're redefining how the world's most ambitious organizations access and manage energy. The Role As a Software Engineer focused on Fleet Telemetry & Control at Verse, you will be working closely with our energy solutions partners to design, implement, and test distributed energy resource controls and telemetry software on customer hardware at sites around the world. You will be part of a dynamic, high-performance team building applications directly on bare-metal or on hardware-level virtualization platforms. As an advanced technical leader in network programming and state management development, engineering teams will look to you for best standards and practices for interfacing with on-premises grid assets using solutions you will build and maintain. Key Responsibilities Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and transparent communication with a high caliber of mutual respect and consideration for stakeholders Mentor and support career and junior level engineers in their fleet telemetry and control software career development

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$179K – $252K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As a Lead Software Engineer, Cloud Services, you will create scalable, reliable backend systems that support HP IQ's mission to transform the way people work. We value how we work as much as what we deliver. Our journey of continuous learning and evolution requires a flexible and resilient services platform that fosters innovation, experimentation, and adaptation. To enable this, we focus on designs and tools rooted in strong engineering principles like abstraction, composition, virtualization, automation, and iterative development cycles. What You Might Do Lead technical strategy and execution across development and infrastructure, designing and implementing scalable, secure cloud-native systems while establishing architecture standards and engineering best practices. Own end-to-end delivery of platform and cloud services, including infrastructure buildout, application architecture, APIs, deployment pipelines, observability, reliability, and performance, while mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional alignment. Work with modern containerization and cloud technologies, includi

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